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Abstract:Australia's National Health Policy on Alcohol has recommended that beverage containers be labelled so that alcohol content is ‘readily understandable by the public’. Health promotion to increase the responsible use of alcohol now relies extensively on the concept of a standard drink—usually defined as 10 g of ethyl alcohol. Numerous difficulties confront a drinker who wishes to apply the standard drink system to monitor alcohol intake. This report describes a series of experimental tests of the proposal that these difficulties are minimised if alcohol containers have their alcohol content indicated in terms of standard drinks in addition to the usual percentage alcohol by volume method.Subjects were drinkers recruited from a Perth shopping mall and were tested only on beverage types they had consumed within the previous week. They were required to pour what they judged to be a single standard drink from a 750 ml bottle of either wine or beer. Beer drinkers achieved greater accuracy in this task when the bottles had standard drink labels, even when the glass size and beverage strength were varied. Wine drinkers had equal difficulty with this task whether standard drink or percentage labels were used. The addition of a ‘ladder’ up the side of a wine bottle with graduations in standard drinks would be necessary for wine drinkers to achieve a high level of accuracy.We conclude that labelling drink containers with their alcohol content in terms of standard drinks would better equip all drinkers to follow the advice of health

ISSN:1035-7319    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1991.tb00011.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

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Abstract:There is a clear link between social relationships and health in terms of both morbidity and mortality. The study was conducted during 1989 and 1990 among mothers of newborn infants from a middle‐ranking socioeconomic status suburb in Sydney (Ryde). Thirty‐four per cent of the study group had a moderate level of social isolation and 16 per cent had a high level of social isolation. These mothers strongly valued participation in the groups: virtually all original participants remained with the group both during a five‐week formal period with a nursing staff member as the leader and during months and up to five years of continued meetings. The outcomes appear to be favourable in terms of the development and continuation of strong interpersonal relationships among members of the group and by improved confidence and knowledge about infant rearing.The development of groups of mothers adds no cost to the provision of health services and provides a sound and practical way of reducing social isolation and increasing mothercraft skills in an Australian s

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DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1991.tb00012.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1035-7319    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1991.tb00013.x

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年代:1991

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Book reviewed in this article:Evaluating health promotion: a health worker's guide Penelope Hawe, Deirdre Degeling and Jane Hall. Sydney: MacLennan&Petty, 1990, 254 pp.Reasonable care Grant Gillett. Bristol: Bristol Press, 1989, 147 pp.The challenges of medical practice variations Tavs Folmer Andersen and Gavin Mooney (eds). Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan Press, 1990, 203 pp.Life among the scientists: an anthropological study of an Australian scientific community Max Charlesworth, Lindsay Farrall, Terry Stokes and David Turnbull. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1989, viii + 304 pp.Reshaping life: key issues in genetic engineering G.J.V. Nossal and R.L. Coppel. 2nd edn. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1989, xii + 179 pp.Preventing AIDS: the design of effective programs Ronald O. Valdiserri. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989, 304 pp.The misfortunes of others: end‐stage renal disease in the United Kingdom Thomas Halper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 219 pp.The politics of public health Meredeth Turshen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989, 319 pp.Indoor air quality H. Kasuga (ed.). Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer‐Verlag, 1990, 510

ISSN:1035-7319    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1991.tb00014.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1035-7319    

DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1991.tb00015.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY